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11 plain-English guides — about 62 minutes in total — covering how perpetual futures work, how to manage risk, and how to trade on NyxGo.

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Featured guide5 min readWhat are perpetual futures?A plain-English introduction to perpetual futures, covering how they track a price without expiring, how longs and shorts gain or lose, and what you risk.Read now

Part 1

Basics

How perpetual futures, funding and leverage actually work.

  1. 1.1What are perpetual futures?A plain-English introduction to perpetual futures, covering how they track a price without expiring, how longs and shorts gain or lose, and what you risk.Beginner5 min read
  2. 1.2Funding rates explainedWhat funding is, who pays whom, how the hourly rate is calculated, and how to read funding in NyxGo before you hold a position for long.Intermediate5 min read
  3. 1.3Leverage and marginHow margin backs a perp position, the difference between initial and maintenance margin, cross versus isolated margin, and why higher leverage moves liquidation closer.Beginner5 min read

Part 2

Trading

Orders, liquidation and keeping risk in check.

  1. 2.1Liquidation and how to avoid itWhen a position is liquidated, how the process works, how to read your liquidation price in NyxGo, and practical habits that keep you well away from it.Intermediate5 min read
  2. 2.2Order types in NyxGoHow market, limit, stop, take-profit, scale and TWAP orders, time in force, reduce-only and TP/SL work on NyxGo, and how to set each one up in the order form.Beginner7 min read
  3. 2.3Risk management basicsThe core habits of managing risk on leveraged perps, including risk per trade, sizing from your exit, planning stops and keeping leverage modest.Beginner5 min read
  4. 2.4Trading stock perps on NyxGoWhat stock, index and commodity perps are, how they differ from crypto perps, and how to find, fund and trade them in NyxGo.Beginner3 min read

Part 3

Using NyxGo

From connecting a wallet to sharing your first idea.

  1. 3.1Getting started on NyxGoA step-by-step walkthrough from connecting your wallet and funding your account to enabling trading, placing your first order and closing it.Beginner6 min read
  2. 3.2Trading with the communityHow to share trade ideas with $cashtags, trade calls and bullish or bearish tags, follow traders, read their profiles and the leaderboard, and report posts that break the rules.Beginner9 min read
  3. 3.3Agents on NyxGoHow DCA, trailing stop and grid agents trade your own account within limits you sign, how the Agents key works, and how to pause, cancel or revoke them.Intermediate7 min read
  4. 3.4Moon AIHow to ask Moon AI about markets and your positions, what it looks at, how a drafted order reaches your order form, and what it will never do.Beginner5 min read

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Open any market in the terminal and watch funding, open interest and the order book move in real time.

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